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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

127 reviews

rubberrosebooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Death, Child death, Addiction, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, and Violence

eemi42's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Reading Six of Crows is a somewhat similar experience to reading Dune in that there is a lot of vocab and world building to get used to, but it's worth it to stick with it.

The characters are loveable

and I like rooting for the couples that formed—Kaz and Inej, Jesper and Wylan, and especially Nina and Jesper.

Also, I found the Grisha vs. Fjerdan conflict very compelling and relevant.

It took me quite some time to get used to the world,

but things really pick up in the final 25%. Things would appear to go wrong and I'd get very stressed, only for it to be revealed that it was part of the plan all along. (Inej getting detained at the gate). There are many loose ends that make me want to acquire and read the second book immediately

I thought the constant switching of perspective would get annoying, but it was masterfully done and didn't detract from the story—only added to it.

Can't wait to read Crooked Kingdom!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Murder, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Death, Genocide, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault, War, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking

veggiestrawenjoyer13's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I was wary of starting this series because I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, but I do! The start was a little slow for me, but then it got better as the plot started advancing. I ADORE all the main characters/crows and I’m super excited to read the second book. The worldbuilding can be confusing if you haven’t read shadow and bone (like me) but you understand it after a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Ableism, Sexual harassment, and Child death

renewed_reader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Body horror, Classism, Blood, Death, Genocide, Torture, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

kiryomi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”

A dark, twisty, beautifully haunting tale of six teenagers with miserable pasts who are bound together by an impossible heist that should get them killed. In their universe, there is a species called Grisha, who have the power to manipulate natural elements. They are being hunted down, deemed “witches” who shouldn’t exist. In a hustling and bustling city called Ketterdam, two workers and a ruthless boss are attempting their next mission, joined by a Grisha Heartrender, a former prisoner, and a runaway with a rich past.

Leigh Bardugo brilliantly diversified this book. Two of the six are people of color (Zemeni and Suli, using their world’s cultural terms) and disability is shown without being something freakish or unnatural. A non-working leg, dyslexia, ADD (though that one is unconfirmed). The main focus of the book isn’t romance, but the author wrote it so enticingly and I ate up every delectable scrap.

Overall, you will become invested in these six people. Everyone should read this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Genocide, Trafficking, Murder, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

amiradeara's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is one of my favourite books of all time. I’ve read this at like 5 times and I always notice something new. It will always be special to me. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Trafficking, Child death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

egwilk28's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It is a fast and fun YA read with some gritty crime and heist shenanigans.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Slavery

Moderate: Racism and Sexual harassment

sagerust's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, Confinement, Gore, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Trafficking

natyourusual_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Once you reach the actual heist happening and the first major problem in the Ice Palace, it becomes a fun read. Unfortunately, that takes over 280 pages which is roughly 2/3 of the whole book. I should not have to slog through that much for it to get good. Plus, certain characters got hyper-speed development at the end despite having enough page time to get better slowly. Other characters got so little page time of substance that I barely knew who they were until the end. It just felt a little sloppy imo. All of the characters should have been aged up as well. I hated being reminded that they’re literal children because that did not make any sense for their character arcs/backgrounds and took me out of the story. Explanation of my biggest gripe in the spoiler section (and it has some pretty big spoilers):

Okay so I have one major gripe with this book and it’s the Nina/Matthias romance. He is a former witch hunter and she’s Grisha. The horrendous things we see from him and his ilk throughout the story are absolutely disgusting. He’s essentially former gestapo yet we’re supposed to be rooting for him to get with someone he was going to torture and murder on several occasions. Even after they’re into each other and they see the burnt corpses of her people, he has the audacity to say to her “have you ever considered that you were never meant to exist?” Like, I get that he “grows” and realizes that maybe everything he was taught was propaganda and wrong, but he also pulls the “killing Hitler means you’re as bad as him” argument when he stops Nina from killing his genocidal mentor. I just think a lot of that arc was not good and I hated it. Them being friends and him growing and then helping her stop more of her people being murdered by helping her end (read: kill) the main cause of that violence would have been a better arc. No romance, though, ever. I cannot stand this type of romance. </spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Cursing, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Slavery, and Ableism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ssoha's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment